How to manage the risks of drift once active assistance in dying is legalized? Will society inevitably push for this possibility to be open to as many people as possible? Should it be granted to people with psychiatric disorders? To those who no longer bear the weight of age and loneliness? While Olympe, a 23-year-old YouTuber who says she suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID), has just requested euthanasia in Belgium, these are the delicate questions that were invited to reflect on Friday, January 20, the members of the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life at the Palais d’Iéna, Paris headquarters of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Cese) which is organizing the exercise.
“There is a long death as there is a bad death”: Borne opens the debates of the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life
During this fourth working session, speakers from four countries that have already authorized euthanasia and/or assisted suicide came to share analyzes and advice. Were thus brought together, by videoconference, Michel Bureau, president of the Commission for end-of-life care in Quebec, Théo Boer, former controller of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands, Francesca Re, lawyer for the Luca Coscioni association in Italy , and Joelle Osterhaus, psychosocial services supervisor in a palliative care unit in Portland (Oregon), USA.
“Revolution from doctors”
It was Michel Bureau who opened the discus
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